IN 1917 went abroad in the service of the A.R.C. and established
a canteen near Verdun. After this canteen had been put into successful
operation, returned to this country, and in May, 1918, enlisted
in the U.S. Army, without seeking a commission. [Report from the
Secretary's Office, Yale University.]

BARTOW HARWOOD HALL, 1906.

MADE 2nd Lieutenant, F.A., May 10, 1917. Attended the 1st Training
Camp, Fort Riley, Kansas, from June 15 to Aug. 15, 1917, and was
made 1st Lieutenant, F.A., Aug. 15. Sailed for France Sept. 10,
and attended the Artillery School at Saumur, France, from Oct.
through Dec., 1917. Assigned to the 6th F.A., 1st Division, Jan.
1, 1918, and in command of Battery E, 6th F.A., from March 1,
1918, to Feb. 1, 1919, except during absences from June 17 to
31, July 28 to Aug. 14, and Oct. 4 to Jan. 1, 1919. Made Captain
Apr. 25, 1918. Wounded June 17, 1918, and again Oct. 4, 1918.
Received divisional citations March 1, 1918 and July 20, 1918.
Occupied the following sectors: Toul, Montdidier, Saiserais. Took
part in the following engagements: Cantigny, Montdidier-Noyon
defensive, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Argonne. With the Army of Occupation
from Jan. 1 to Feb. 1, 1919. Received orders to return for discharge
Feb. 1, which was received Apr. 9, 1919. The citations are not
accessible.

LOUIS GORDON HAMERSLEY, 1912.

SERVED in the A.A.F.S. under A. Piatt Andrew, Vosges Detachment,
from Dec. 2, 1916, to June 2, 1917. Entered Fontainebleau as a
Civilian, by special permission, June 11, 1917, and graduated
as Aspirant Civil of Artillery, Sept. 3. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant,
F.A., U.S.R., Oct. 2. Joined F. Battery, 6th F.A., 1st Division,
and went into line Nov. 6. Served on all fronts with the 1st Division.
Took part in the following battles: Cantigny (Montdidier defensive)
; Soissons; St. Mihiel; Argonne. Spent four months and a half
with the Army of Occupation near Coblentz. Recommended for the
Distinguished Service Cross.

LOUIS BRANCH HARDING, 1904.

ENLISTED in the F.A. in Apr., 1918. Sergeant Instructor in
the F.A. Replacements, Camp Jackson, S.C., until July. Joined
the F.A., C.O.T.S., Camp Taylor, Ky., in July. Transferred to
the Reserve as 1st Lieutenant about the end of 1918.

ENLISTED May 15, 1917, in the O.T.C., and trained at Madison
Barracks. Graduated as Captain of Infantry Aug. 15. Assigned to
Camp Dix, N.J., and attached to the 311th Infantry. Assigned in
Sept. to the 153rd Depot Brigade, commanding Company 18, 5th Battalion,
153rd Depot Brigade. From June to Sept., 1919, on special duty
in charge of Camp Dix Casual Detachment. Assigned in Sept., 1918,
to Company 55, 15th Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade. Discharged
from the service as Captain Dec. 21, 1918.

GEORGE UPHAM HARRIS, 1917.

[Does not answer. 2nd Lieutenant, A.E.F.]

RICHARD MACY HARRIS, 1912.

FROM Jan. to May, 1918, trained at the S.M.A., Mass. Institute
of Technology. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, A.S.,S.C., May 2.
Stationed during May and June at Taylor Field, Montgomery, Ala.
June 27, sailed for England as Casual. From July to Nov., 1918,
stationed at Catterick, Yorkshire, England, with the Day Bombing
Squadron. Sailed for home Nov. 29. Jan. 2, 1919, accepted commission
as 1st Lieutenant in the O.R.C., and was discharged from active
duty.

FREDERICK HENRY HARVEY, 1914.

ENTERED the service March 1, 1917, enlisting at Key West, Fla.,
in the S.E.R.C. as a Sergeant. Received training at the Curtiss
Civilian Training School at Miami, Fla., under government supervision.
Commissioned June 9, 1917, as 1st Lieutenant, Aviation Section,
S.R.C. July 10, ordered to Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex. Aug.
12, ordered to Toronto, Canada, in command of the 27th Aero Squadron.
Oct. 17 ordered to Scott Field, Belleville, Ill., as Assistant
Officer in Charge of Flying. Dec. 23, ordered to Ellington Field,
Houston, Tex., in the same capacity. Feb. 12, 1918, ordered to
Carruthers Field, Fort Worth, Tex., as Officer in Charge of Flying.
Promoted to Captain Feb. 20. June 5, ordered to Mineola to the
First Provisional Wing. Held the position of Wing Flight Officer,
Commanding Officer, Whitehall Field and Roosevelt Field respectively.
Oct. 2, ordered overseas in charge of a detachment of 120 pilots
to report at Issoudun for training as chasse pilots. Returned
Feb. 12, and was discharged Feb. 14, 1919.

ABROAD from March to Nov., 1918, as a War Correspondent, A.E.F.,
under the Intelligence Department; also certified with the B.E.F.
under the Ministry of Public Information; Special Representative
of the New York Tribune; Special Correspondent for reports
to the War Department Commission on Training Camps; Representative
of Inter-Fraternity Conference abroad; and in charge of clubs
in Paris and London, and of work for members of Delta Kappa Epsilon.

HAROLD HAYES, 1907.

REJECTED several times because of defective eyesight. Went
to France with the Red Cross, Transportation Department, in Jan.,
1918. Worked in Paris as a Private, in connection with automobile
service, and in the Director's office. Continued in the latter
for five months, and was then promoted to 1st Lieutenant, and
Aide to the Director. Made Captain in Dec., and Major in Jan.,
1919. Returned home in Apr. Served as Aide to the Director, and
some of the time in Paris as Acting Director of Transportation.
The Department had a personnel of 1,500, and as many automobiles,
with warehouses at fourteen ports and operating points all over
France. All Red Cross material and all workers were under the
jurisdiction of this office. Was offered work on several other
commissions, but declined it. Received the following decorations:
Field Service Medal and the Médaille des Epidémies.
The citations are not accessible.

EDWARD WHITTIER HELLIER, 1914.

ENTERED the British Royal Flying Corps as a Cadet, Sept. 3,
1917. Received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in Jan., 1918, and
was Instructor in flying for nine months. Made 1st Lieutenant,
R.A.F., Apr. 1, 1918. Went overseas in Sept., and returned Apr.
3, 1919.

JOHN HELLIER, 1918.

SERVED for two years in the Yale Battery. [Report by Walter
H. Hellier.]

WALTER HARMON HELLIER, 1912.

WITH the A.A.S. from June to Nov., 1915, and the Royal Flying
Corps, British Army, as Cadet, from Nov. 26, 1917, to July 10,
1918. 2nd Lieutenant from July 10, 1918, to Feb. 8, 1919.

CHARLES ANTHONY HINKLE, 1914.

ENTERED the U.S.N.R.F. at Newport, R.I., Apr. 13, 1917, as
a Seaman of the 1st class. Served on several patrol boats stationed
at Newport, R.I., New Bedford, Mass., and Norfolk, Va. In Dec.,
transferred from Norfolk to the office of Aide for Information,
Newport, R.I. In June, 1918, transferred to take charge of the
office of Aide for Information placed by the Cape Cod Canal, and
given the temporary rank of Chief Yeoman. At the signing of the
armistice the office on the Cape Cod Canal was closed. Then transferred
back to Newport to await discharge, and was released from active
service as a Seaman of the 1st class Jan. 11, 1919.

VOLUNTEER Field Ambulance Driver in the Section Sanitaire Harjes,
attached to the 26th Division, 6th Army Corps of France; and served
at the front, chiefly in the Montdidier sector, from July to Oct.,
1915. For its work in the war the Section received four army and
three divisional citations, entitling its members to the Fourragères
of the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille Militaire. At the
1st Plattsburg O.T.C., N.Y., in May, June and July of 1917. Recommended
for a commission in the Intelligence Corps, U.S.A. Ratification
being delayed, was placed upon the reserve list. Enlisted Sept.
20, 1917, as a Cadet in the Imperial Royal Flying Corps. Trained
in Canada and Texas, and was commissioned in Toronto in Apr.,
1918. Graduated in England as a Service Pilot; passed through
the Midland School of Special Flying; and was made Instructor
at Shawbury Camp, Salop, with rank of 1st Flight Lieutenant, R.A.F.
Flew until demobilized there in Feb., 1919.

STODDARD HOFFMAN, 1911.

FROM Nov., 1915, to May, 1916, Field Ambulance Driver (Section
Sanitaire Harjes) ; attached to the French Army. Took part in
the battle of Verdun. The Section received two army and five divisional
citations. Received the following distinctions: Fourragère
de la Croix de Guerre, and Fourragère de la Médaille
Militaire. Trained six months in 1917 for the U.S. Army at Governor's
Island. Enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps in Sept., 1917,
at Toronto, Canada, with rank as Cadet until Jan. 1, 1918. From
Jan., 1918, until March, 2nd Lieutenant, abroad; and from March
to Sept., 1st Flight Lieutenant abroad. Honorably discharged in
Sept., 1918, because of wounds received.

WILLIAM MITCHELL VAIL HOFFMAN, 1916.

SERVED On the Mexican border from June to Nov., 1916, in the
1st F.A., Mass. N.G. Enlisted in the 1st Depot Battalion, S.C.,
Nov. 17, 1917, in New York City, with the rank of Private of the
1st Class. Arrived in France Dec. 27. Transferred to the Corps
of Intelligence Police Apr. 9, 1918, with the rank of Sergeant.
Arrived in the U.S May 29, 1919, and was honorably discharged
at Camp Mills, L.I., June 3, with the rank of Sergeant.

MARK WATSON HORNE, 1914.

AT the 1st R.O.T.C., Plattsburg, N.Y., from May 10 to Aug.
15, 1917, and on the latter date was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant
of Infantry, Company K, 302nd Infantry, 76th Division, stationed
at Camp Devens. From Aug. 28 to July 4, 1918, served at Le Courneau,
and at St. Amand until Nov. 15. Oct. 22 transferred to the 301st
Military Police, stationed at St. Amand; and Nov. 10 this was
transferred and stationed at Treves, Germany, and became 1st General
Hq., Military Police Battalion. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant May
12, 1919. Arrived in the U.S. July 10, and was discharged Aug.
1.

CHARLES HURD HOWELL, 1909.

IN Sept., 1915, enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, and was
commissioned 2nd Lieutenant Dec. 13. In July, 1916, accompanied
General Haig in his campaign on the Somme. Later in service in
the English Coast Defence against raids, and in charge of anti-aircraft
gun crews. Trained in England at Brooklands and at Croydon. Attached
in France to the 12th and 13th Squadrons, and to Hq. Served in
England as Instructor to the 49th and 44th Squadrons at No. 2
Auxiliary School of Aerial Gunnery, and to the 45th, 61st and
39th Squadrons at Grantham. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant July 1,
1917; Captain Sept. 1, 1918; and demobilized Jan. 25, 1919, at
Thetford, England. Mentioned in the Victory Despatches from England
in Nov., 1919, for "splendid service during the war."
[From "New England Aviators," Houghton Mifflin Co.,
1919.]

GEORGE DAWSON HOWELL, JR., 1911.

ENLISTED in Jan., 1916, as a Seaman of the 2nd class in the
Naval Militia of N.Y., and received appointments as follows: Apr.
5, 1917, Ensign, U.S.N.R.F.; Sept. 15, Ensign (temporary), U.S.N.;
June 1, 1918, Lieutenant (j.g.) (temporary), U.S.N.; Sept. 21,
Lieutenant (temporary), U.S.N. Resigned from the service July
17, 1919. On convoy duty from Sept., 1917, until the armistice,
serving on U.S.S. New Orleans and U.S.S. Des Moines;
and on station duty in North Russia from May 1, 1919, to July
17.

ALFRED OTTO HOYT, 1911.

COMMISSIONED as 1st Lieutenant in the Ordnance Department June
1, 1917. Served in Washington and New York with the Inspection
Division, Ordnance Department, until Apr. 20, 1918. Sailed for
Europe Apr. 28, and reached the A.E.F. May 6. Stationed at an
Ordnance Depot near Chaumont from June to Sept., teaching in a
school on the subject of the care and the handling of ammunition.
Sept. 27, ordered to Hq., 2nd Army, at Toul, and remained there
until Apr., 1919, as an Ammunition Inspector for the Army. March
9, promoted to the rank of Captain. Sailed for America May 6,
landed May 20, and was discharged at Washington, May 23, 1919.

ELISHA DYER HUBBARD, Ex-1898.

JOINED the Yale Mobile Hospital Unit No. 39 as a Truck Driver
in Aug., 1917. Sailed for France on S.S. Baltic, as one
of the first 30,000 American Volunteers. The Baltic had
2800 men on board, and took twenty-five days in crossing. She
was torpedoed the last day by a submarine in the Irish Sea, a
fifteen-foot hole being torn in her bow. Beginning in the spring
of 1918, spent nine months at the front, acting as Surgical Assistant.
Returned in the latter part of Jan., 1919, after eighteen months'
service overseas.

FREDERICK BROWN HUMPHREYS, 1895.

BEGAN active service as 1st Lieutenant in the Med. R.C. Aug.
22, 1917. Served for varying periods at the Rockefeller Institute
and as Chief of Laboratories in the Base Hospital at Camp Lee,
and at General Hospital 12, Biltmore, N.C. Joined the A.E.F. July
12, 1918, and served as Chief Laboratory Officer at the Vittel-Contrexéville
Hospital Centre, Vosges. Upon the break-up of this centre following
the armistice, was assigned to Base Hospital 36, and returned
with it to America. Discharged from the service Apr. 21, 1919,
at Camp Jackson, S.C. Promotions were as follows: to Captain,
Feb. 11, 1918; to Major, Nov. 14, 1918; and to Lieutenant-Colonel
Feb. 14, 1919.

ARTHUR MIDDLETON HUNTER, 1907.

ENLISTED at Newport, R.I., May 25, 1917, and was called to
active service Nov. 12. Held the rating of Boatswain's Mate, 2nd
class, U.S.N.R.F., through active service, and confirmed rating
in Feb., 1919. Commanding Officer of U.S.S. Speedway, S.P.
407, attached to the New London District Base, from July, 1918,
to Feb., 1919. The Speedway was a patrol boat fifty-five feet
long. Made the trip to Key West, Fla., in Sept. and Oct., 1918,
to be attached to aviation work on the Gulf of Mexico. Released
from active service at Newport, R.I., Feb. 18, 1919. Enlistment
will terminate May 25, 1921.

JOSEPH BIEGLER HUSBAND, 1904.

SERVED in the U.S.N.R.F. Enlisted Jan. 6, 1918, as a Seaman
of the 2nd class, at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Commissioned
as an Ensign May 22, 1918. Foreign service, from Aug, 3 to Dec.
31, 1918, was as follows: on U.S.S. Noma, doing cargo convoy
escort duty in the Bay of Biscay; and on U.S.S. Destroyer Benham,
doing troop convoy escort duty out of Brest.

ARTHUR EMLEN HUTCHINSON, 1901.

FROM Nov., 1916, to May, 1917, served with the A.A.F.S., S.S.U.
9, in France. In Nov., 1917, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Adjutant
General's Department, and assigned to the War Risk Insurance Section,
A.E.F. In Apr., 1918, attached to the 32nd French Army Corps as
Liaison Officer, later with the staff of the 4th Corps (American),
and the 33rd French Army Corps. From Dec., 1918 to May, 1919,
with the Franco-American section of the Military Government of
Paris. Received the Croix de Guerre from the 32nd French Army
Corps. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant as of July, 1918. The citation
follows.

COMMISSIONED 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry, R.C., Aug. 15, 1917,
and assigned to Company E, 302nd Infantry, from Sept. 1 to Nov.
10, 1918. Attached to Company B, 163rd Infantry, from Nov. 11
to Dec. 20, 1918. Assigned to Company L, 309th Infantry, from
Dec. 26 to March 31, 1919; and to the 3rd Battalion, 309th Infantry,
from Apr. 1 to June 5. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant of Infantry,
N.A., Dec. 31, 1917. Discharged at Camp Dix, N.J., June 5, 1919.
Served overseas from July 5, 1918, to May 28, 1919.

ADRIAN ISELIN, 2ND, 1905.

ENROLLED in the U.S.N.R.F. Apr. 29, 1917, in the 3rd Naval
District as Chief Boatswain's Mate, and was called into active
service July 10. Spent the first two months training at Bensonhurst,
Brooklyn, N.Y. Ordered Sept. 10 to report to the Commanding Officer
of the Port Jefferson Training Station, Port Jefferson, L.I.,
and was there given command of the patrol boat S.P. 107. Transferred
from Port Jefferson to U.S.S. Madawaska, then doing transport
duty between New York and St. Nazaire, France, and made a trip
on her. Received orders on her return to New York to report to
the Commanding Officer of the Rockaway Air Station at Rockaway,
L.I., and on reporting was given command of U.S.S. Privateer,
S.P. 179, then doing salvage and patrol work for the Station.
Apr. 6, 1918, received commission as Ensign. Continued in command
of S.P. 179 until Dec. 28, when put on the inactive list.

ENTERED the U.S. Navy March 23, 1917, as a Quartermaster of
the 1st class. Served on S.P. 56 for five months at Newport and
Block Island. Commissioned Ensign, U.S.N.R.F., Sept. 20. Entered
the reserve class at Annapolis for four months. Ordered abroad
in Feb., 1918, and served eleven months at Queenstown and Brest
on U.S.S. Tucker, a destroyer. Credited with one submarine;
mentioned in the Secretary of the Navy's report. Commissioned
Lieutenant (j.g.), U.S.N., July 1, 1918.

HENRY JACKSON, JR., 1911.

ENLISTED in the N.A. in Oct., 1917, and in Nov. joined the
M.E.R.C., U.S.A., remaining until Sept., 1918. Served in the Med.
C., Hospital Sergeant, 1st Class (acting, temporary), from Sept.,
1918, to Jan., 1919; and in the Mass. State Guard, First Motor
Corps, from May to Aug., 1918.

ALBERT LOFTIN JOHNSON, 1915.

ENLISTED Apr. 30, 1917, in Squadron A Cavalry N.Y.N.G. Transferred
to the A.S. Oct. 12. Graduated from the Princeton Ground School,
and was sent to the San Diego Flying School. Apr. 30, 1918, commissioned
Instructor in Duel at San Diego and Riverside, Cal. Finished the
Pursuit Course at San Diego in Oct., 1918. Assistant Officer in
Charge of pursuit work from Oct. 25, 1918, to date of discharge,
Jan. 6, 1919.

GEORGE FREDERICK BETTS JOHNSON, Ex-1918.

ENTERED the U.S. Marine Corps and was sent to Paris Island
Nov. 6, 1918, having enlisted Sept. 1. Served during sixteen weeks
of training in the 426th Company. Feb. 5, transferred to Philadelphia
and placed in the 88th Company of the 1st Regiment. Apr. 10, detailed
to Quantico to shoot in the Eastern Division Rifle Match, having
qualified as Expert Rifleman at Paris Island for the year 1918.
May 6 shot in the match and qualified again for the year 1919.
May 8 returned to Philadelphia and remained until transferred
July 1 to the Boston Navy Yard as a Prison Guard. July 14, 1919,
discharged with the rank of Private. The work in Philadelphia
consisted of three months' guard duty, and, the rest of the time,
storing away the Company's equipment, which consisted of searchlights.

THOMAS LOFTIN JOHNSON, 1913.

ENLISTED in M.G. Troop, Squadron A, N.Y.N.G. Cavalry, Apr.
29, 1917, which was made the 105th M.G. Battalion of the 27th
Division, and sent to Spartanburg Oct. 8, 1917. Attained the rank
of Corporal and remained with this organization, in C Company,
until transferred, May 1, 1918, to the 15th Aero Squadron of the
A.S. at Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, L.I. Sent to the M.G.O.T.C.
at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., Sept. 25, and there completed the
course shortly after the armistice. Had the choice between being
put on the Officers' Reserve List and receiving a discharge. Was
honorably discharged Dec. 18, 1918.

PEMBROKE JONES, JR., 1911.

ENLISTED in the U.S.N.R.F. Feb. 4, 1918, and was ordered to
report for duty on the same date at the Bureau of Supplies and
Accounts at Washington. Rated upon entrance as a Seaman of the
2nd class, and was advanced to Seaman of the 1st Class Nov. 30.
Did duty in this bureau all the time of service, in charge of
filing papers, etc. Discharged from active service Jan. 10, 1919.

✠ RICHARD MATHER JOPLING, 1912.

RICHARD MATHER JOPLING was born in Marquette, Michigan, on
Sunday, July sixteenth, 1893, the son of James Edmund and Elizabeth
Walton (Mather) Jopling. His mother was a direct descendant of
Richard Mather, the father of Increase, and the grandfather of
Cotton Mather. He attended the public schools until ill health
compelled him to substitute private instruction, and in 1905 entered
the Third Form at the Fay School. Graduating in 1907 with the
silver medal and the scholarship prize, which he had also taken
in 1906, he entered St. Mark's in the fall, and graduated in five
years. Here he was distinguished for his interest and scholarship
in English and for his musical taste and accomplishment. A threatened
heart trouble prevented him from doing much with athletics. He
entered Harvard with the class of 1916, and took his degree with
this class, though he completed the work for it in three years.
At Harvard also he was distinguished for literary taste and for
music, and when in Commencement week he received an offer from
the New York Times, it answered his strongest wishes. But
this offer was conditional upon immediate acceptance, and he had
already signed for the Plattsburg Training Camp in August. With
deep regret he declined, and gave his services to his country.

RICHARD MATHER JOPLING

Upon the declaration of war he offered himself at the Plattsburg
Camp, but was rejected on account of being under weight. He thereupon
devoted himself to building up his health, in the meantime working
for the Red Cross in New York; but again failed at Plattsburg,
and applied for overseas duty in ambulance work with the American
Field Service. He sailed for France on September the thirteenth,
and took the field under Unit No. 66 in the district between Soissons
and Rheims, as a Private of the first class. When the United States
took over the Field Service the number of his unit was changed
to 623. After the German drive at Chemin des Dames in May, 1918,
he was cited for the Croix de Guerre, and the medal was found
among his effects after his death. He received a second citation
for bravery at Mézières on the last day of the war.
There he received shell-shock, but continued on active duty until
his short furlough in England. He there succumbed to the effects
of the shock on Sunday, March the sixteenth. He was buried with
military honors in Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, near London. The
citations follow.

In the vivid style which would have brought him success in
journalism if he had been spared, Jopling writes of the devastation
and wanton brutality of the Germans in Belgium, and like McKinlock,
bears witness to the inadequacy of America's conception of them.
There can be little doubt that the effect upon him of these horrors
materially lessened his chances of recovery from the shell-shock;
but the increased work in the ruined areas, which he would not
forsake, was also a large factor; and moreover he did not cease
to put his musical ability to daily use. Among his effects were
found letters from three officers recommending his promotion to
the rank of Lieutenant; and one of his companions in battle tells
that Jopling returned and saved him in the face of a heavy barrage
fire. Such is the record of the St. Mark's boy who could not pass
the physical examination at Plattsburg, after sacrificing that
life work which had always been his greatest ambition; the gentle,
earnest, but almost over-modest boy we knew, who watched quietly
from the side-lines at the football games, spent hours by himself
in the music-room, and wrote poems for the Vindex. It teaches
a lesson which the School sometimes needs: a just understanding
of the heroism required to give up the more popular activities
and rewards, and to go courageously and strongly in the direction
of duty. How he went about his work; how patiently and skilfully
he made his talents count, we know; but his manhood and courage
had not the opportunities for display which are given to most
boys. That they proved in him to be worthy of the greatest honors
among the men that America sent into the war is a consummation
which brings to his School a glory distinct from all others. The
closing lines of one of his poems in the Vindex, written
as he was about to graduate, are strikingly prophetic of the work
to which his mighty ideals led him at last:

Spirit of the School! live in us yet;
Thy earnest, fearless ardor let us feel,
That each disheartening combat may be met
With boyish zeal.

Then onward still, with never thought of rest,
Till all the tumult of the world is past, --
That, with a conquering courage in our breast,
We may be men at last!

COMMISSIONED 2nd Lieutenant, F.A., U.S.R., at Plattsburg, in
Aug., 1917, and sailed for France Sept. 8. Assigned to the 15th
F.A., 2nd Division, A.E.F., and served with it at the front from
March to Sept., 1918. Cited for gallantry in action in the Château-Thierry
sector. Received the Distinguished Service Cross for the action
at Vierzy, France, July 18, 1918. Promoted to 1st Lieutenant,
15th F.A., Sept. 12, 1918. Instructor in the Army Intelligence
School from Nov., 1918, to Jan., 1919; Assistant G-2, 3rd Army,
A.E.F., from Jan. to March, 1919; and Asst. Military Attaché,
American Embassy, Paris, from March to May, 1919. Demobilized
in May, 1919. The citation for the action at Vierzy follows.

"Lieutenant Kean accompanied two successive waves of
infantry in the attack on Vierzy and Villemontoire, July 18,
exposed himself with almost reckless disregard of the enemy's
heavy shell and machine gun fire, secured invaluable information
for the Artillery as to the location of our own and the enemy's
lines, and personally took command of an isolated 9th Infantry
Machine Gun Detachment that had lost its officers by heavy fire.
Lieutenant Kean on July 18th and 19th actually accompanied three
successive waves of the 23rd Infantry, the 9th Infantry, and
an attack by French Infantry without rest. His endurance and
courage were exceptional upon this occasion and upon all other
occasions of attack by the 2nd Division."

✠ EDWARD KEMP, JR., 1912.

EDWARD KEMP, JR., the son of Edward Kemp and Josephine De Mott
Kemp, was born in New York on the twenty-eighth of January, 1892.
He tutored at home until he entered the Fay School, from which
he came to St. Mark's in September, 1906. He went to Harvard College
with the class of 1916. After a year of preparation he went into
his father's business, and continued in it until he entered the
service.

Kemp joined the First Armored Motor Battery of New York in
1916, before the United States entered the war. He acted on many
occasions as Messenger for the military authorities; and being
an expert mechanician, instructed in riding motorcycles and in
the care of engines. In the summer of 1916 he went to camp at
Peekskill with the Battery; and the following fall and winter
was on call and duty day and night. During the severely cold weather
he went to Tarrytown to guard the aqueduct, and also drove a motor
truck with supplies through the snow-bound roads to the other
men on duty. He also acted many times as Messenger to the various
camps in New York State. On March the fifth, 1917, he accompanied
the Motor Battery to Washington for the President's inauguration
procession. When returning to the armory the following day, on
the way up Fifth Avenue, he was ordered to investigate a delay
involving several motors. He succeeded in adjusting their motor
troubles, and proceeded to report to the officer in command. At
Ninety-first street a truck which had just been held up for the
other cyclists turned suddenly in front of Kemp's machine. He
tried to pass behind it, but was unable to do so, and was instantly
killed.

EDWARD KEMP, JR.

Captain Montgomery testifies to Kemp's great value to the service,
both as an expert on motors and as an enthusiastic and prompt
soldier, always the first to volunteer for any duty. Kemp was
about to receive an officer's commission at the time of his death.
He was given a military funeral, which was attended by the Armored
Motor Corps in full numbers.

Quiet and industrious as when a boy at school, Edward Kemp
offered himself of his own free will for the difficult and dangerous
task of guarding his country from the unseen, internal danger
before war was declared. He is the only one of our boys who did
this and died in the service, too soon to see the result of his
work; and from our memories of him it is fitting that he should
represent the unselfishness and simple, modest efficiency which
we hope and pray may always characterize our school. As long as
they are properly prized, there is no danger that the perfect
sacrifice which Kemp made will fail to receive the honor due to
those who died on the battlefield. Such work as his precludes
any admixture of self-seeking or any thought of reward beyond
what his conscience gave him. The earnestness and sweetness of
his character were pervasive of everything that he undertook,
and won him the affection and substantial regard of whoever was
associated with him. The same qualities brought him into the service
before he was formally called upon, and his steadily growing efficiency
in his work, already emphasized by his superior officer, was advancing
him to places of honor at the time of his death. The war has shown
in many ways how far back of the actual battle-line the terrible
moral test penetrated; and to the man who fought an unseen foe,
and proved America sound to the core, belongs as surely as to
those whose work came afterwards the honor which shall not perish.

VAN HORNE KEMP, 1914.

ENLISTED July 21, 1917, as a Private in the 9th N.Y.C.A.C.,
and was mustered into the Federal service Aug. 5. Stationed at
Fort Hancock, N.J., until Feb., 1918; then transferred by request
to the Aviation Section, S.C. Sent to Kelly Field, Tex., and placed
on duty with the 144th Aero Squadron. Was accepted for the S.M.A.,
and ordered to the S.M.A., Princeton, N.J., during the latter
part of Aug., 1918. Transferred to the S.M.A. at Austin, Tex.,
and graduated Dec. 7. Discharged from the military service as
a Private of the 1st class, A.S.A., Dec. 11, 1918.

WILHELM PARRY KENNARD, 1904.

ATTENDED the first O.T.C. at Leon Spring, Tex., and was sent
from there to Fort Monroe, Va. Resigned from the service in the
fall on account of very important personal matters for which a
long leave of absence could not be obtained. Returned to the service
and was commissioned Captain in the Q.M.C., and assigned to duty
with the Construction Division. Served in Pennsylvania, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Was placed in charge
of all construction work on the coast defences of Cape Fear, Charleston,
and Savannah. After finishing the work at those points, was ordered
overseas (after the armistice), and assigned to the duty of drilling
recruits at Camp Pontenezen, France. Returned to this country
Sept. 27, 1919, and was honorably discharged Oct. 27, 1919.

RICHARD KENT, 1913.

ENLISTED as a Private in the Tank Corps, June 7, 1918. Sailed
for France Sept. 25, and served in Company B, 330th Battalion,
Tank Corps. Arrived in the U.S. March 13, and was discharged as
Corporal Apr. 11, 1919.

WHITNEY KERNOCHAN, 1903.

WENT to France in Dec., 1917, as 1st Lieutenant in the 15th
N.Y. Infantry. The designation of this regiment was then changed
to the 369th U.S. Infantry. In Apr., 1918, it was brigaded with
the French, and sent to the front as part of the 4th French Army
until after the armistice. Was engaged against the German offensive
in Champagne in Aug., and in the French offensive in Champagne
in Sept. Took part in the entry into Alsace as part of the French
Army of Occupation. In Dec., 1918, transferred to the Provost
Marshal's Department. In June, 1919, discharged from the service
in France.

CHARLES ARCHBALD KIDDER, JR., 1900.

ENLISTED at Seattle about Feb. 1, 1918, and trained at Camp
Grant, Rockford, Ill. Sailed for France at the end of March. Served
in the 90th Transportation Company in or around Tours until July,
1919, and then returned to the U.S. as a Corporal. Mustered out
early in Aug., 1919. [Report by C. A. Kidder.]

HENRY PURKITT KIDDER, 1914.

ENLISTED Dec. 3, 1914, in Battery A, 1st Battalion, Mass. F.A.,
and did Mexican border service from June to Nov., 1916. Detailed
to the R.O.T.C., Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., in May, 1917, and
was discharged from Battery A, 1st Mass. F.A., July 11. At the
1st Plattsburg Training Camp, Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., from
May 21 to Aug. 15. Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, F.A.R.C., Aug.
15, ordered to Camp Devens, Mass., and assigned to the 302nd F.A.
Did duty with Battery A, 302nd F.A., from Aug., 1917, to Feb.,
1918. At the Balloon School at Fort Omaha and Fort Sill from Feb.
to June. Relieved from duty with the A.S. (Balloon) and rejoined
Regiment, 302nd F.A., in June, doing duty with Hq. Company, 302nd
F.A. Sailed for France in July, 1918, and was appointed Regimental
Intelligence Officer in Oct. Served in the St. Mihiel sector,
St. Hilaire offensive, Nov. 4 to Nov. 11, 1918. Arrived in the
U.S. May 3, 1919, and was discharged as 1st Lieutenant of the
302nd F.A. May 7.

JEROME FABER KIDDER, 1901.

WENT abroad as a Y.M.C.A. Secretary in Dec., 1917, and returned
in Dec., 1918. Spent all the time in France, except for a week
in England. Promoted twice, to Hut Secretary and then to Division
Secretary. Served with colored troops.

FREDERICK CLINTON KIDNER, 1896.

COMMISSIONED at Washington as Captain, M.O.R.C., May 15, 1917;
immediately ordered into active service; and sailed for England
May 19 with the first Orthopaedic Unit, under Major J. E. Goldthwait.
Served in England under Sir Robert Jones in his orthopaedic hospitals,
being "loaned" to the British from June, 1917, to July,
1918. Then transferred to the U.S. forces and sent to France for
instruction. Returned to England in Sept., and served there as
orthopaedic Consultant of the Base Section, No. 3, S.O.S., which
included all American hospitals in England, until Jan. 22, 1919.
Ordered home and to duty at the Base Hospital, Camp Dix, until
Feb. 28. Then ordered to the U.S.A. General Hospital No. 36, at
Detroit, in charge of orthopaedic service. On duty there until
discharged, June 30, 1919. Promoted to Major Oct. 1, 1918.

LAWRENCE KIMBALL, 1918.

ENLISTED Oct. 9, 1918, as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Discharged Dec. 16, 1918.

APPLETON KING, 1917.

ENTERED the Royal Flying Corps as Cadet for Pilot Apr. 22,
1918. Promoted Jan. 1, 1919, to Flight Cadet, and discharged on
the same date.

RUFUS HOWARD KING, JR., 1893.

ENLISTED Aug. 4, 1917, as a Sergeant, Q.M.C. Commissioned Aug.
26, 1918, as 2nd Lieutenant, Q.M.C. In service at Camp Dix, N.J.;
Camp J. E. Johnston, Fla.; France; and with the Army of Occupation
at Coblentz, Germany. Discharged from the U.S. Army Oct. 3, 1919.

FIDÈLE SAMUEL ELY KOENIG, 1918.

JOINED the Harvard Unit of the S.A.T.C. Sept. 22, 1918, and
served as a Private until honorably discharged Dec. 10, 1918.

HAROLD MORTON LANDON, 1907.

1914-1916, Member of N.G., 1st Armored Motor Battery. In Oct.,
1916, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 15th N.Y. Infantry (colored).
Entered the recruiting service in Jan., and was made 1st Lieutenant.
The regiment was drafted into the Federal service July 15, 1917.
Sailed for Europe in Nov., 1917. At St. Nazaire, France, until
March, 1918, when the regiment was given to the French, and became
part of Gen. Gouraud's 4th Army in Champagne. Went into the sector
at the left of the Aisne River, Apr. 1, and remained there until
Nov. 11. Served with the 16th French Division for three months,
and then with the 161st until Jan. 1, 1919, seven months. Held
sectors in Champagne, and the last month of the war in Alsace.
Held the following positions in the regiment in order: Lieutenant
in Company F; Battalion Adjutant, 1st Battalion, for most of the
campaign; Regimental Intelligence Officer; Liaison Officer; Regimental
Adjutant; and finally Battalion Adjutant again with the old battalion
on arriving in the U.S.A. Was gassed July 22, 1918, and badly
bruised Sept. 29 by being knocked down by a shell just above the
Optique Station which caused a roof to fail, life being saved
by helmet. In two major battles, the German Champagne offensive,
July 15-25, and the Champagne-Argonne drive which began Sept.
26, 1918. The Regiment was the first of all the Allied armies
to reach the Rhine because of the extreme courtesy of our General
of Division, General Le Bouc, when we marched from Thann, Alsace,
to Blodelsheim on the Rhine. Received the Croix de Guerre with
Palm, and the same with Star finally in Alsace, when the Division
had a "Prise d'armes." The Distinguished Service Cross
was pinned on at Le Mans, on the way home, by Major-General Glenn.
The Regiment left Brest Feb. 1, and arrived at N.Y. Feb. 12. Mustered
out March 1, 1919. The citations follow.

"For extraordinary heroism in action near Sechault, France,
September 29, 1918. Lieutenant Landon, on duty as assistant liaison
officer, personally carried an order to the assault battalion
in order to insure its delivery, passing through heavy fire.
The battalion commander being killed just as he arrived, Lieutenant
Landon gave the order to the next senior, and then waited to
see its execution. When the assaulting line wavered, under a
terrific enemy barrage, this officer jumped ahead of the line
and led the first wave 1000 meters to the objective, assisting
in consolidating the new position before he returned to regimental
headquarters."

ENLISTED as 1st class Machinist Mate in the U.S.N.R. (Aviation),
March 23, 1917. Trained at Palm Beach, Fla., and at Huntington,
L.I. Received a Naval Aviator's certificate (No. 93) Aug. 31.
Commissioned as Ensign Sept. 1, and sailed for France Sept. 23.
Did aerial patrol and convoy work along the coast until June,
1918. Commissioned as Lieutenant (j.g.) March 23. Transferred
to Italy for training in the Night Bombing Caproni land planes
in June. Returned to France in Oct., and received the grade of
Lieutenant, Oct. 31. Stationed at St. Inglevert, France, for night
bombing work in connection with a British bombing squadron. Sailed
for home Feb. 3, 1919, and was placed on inactive duty March 31.

NATHANIEL RUGGLES LANDON, 1916.

ENTERED the U.S.N.R. March 24, 1917, and did duty at Newport,
R.I., and New London, Conn., until Feb., 1918. Then transferred
to U.S. Naval Aviation, and served at Akron, Ohio, and at Rockaway
Beach, N.Y. Commissioned Ensign Sept. 20, 1918, and relieved from
active duty March 4, 1919. {Report by H. H. Landon.]

STEPHEN LESHER LANDON, 1903.

ENLISTED in the U.S.N.R.F. in May, 1917, and sailed for France
in July on U.S.S. Guinevere. Transferred to U.S.S. Corona,
and did convoy work along the French coast and in the English
Channel. Commissioned Ensign in March, 1918, and served on U.S.S.
Sigourney and U.S.S. Cummings, doing convoy duty
for troopships. Arrived in the U.S. Jan. 19, and was relieved
from active duty Feb. 1, 1919.

EDWIN CUMMINGS LAWRENCE, MASTER.

Sailed from New York July 23, 1917, as a Volunteer Driver in
the A.F.S. Was assigned to Section 13. Joined the American Army
Aug. 29, and served throughout the rest of the war as a Corporal
in Section 631. This section worked in Champagne, at Verdun, at
St. Mihiel, on the Somme, and on the Oise, with the 63rd, the
60th, and the 34th Divisions of French Infantry. Spent four months
after the armistice studying at the University of Rennes. Mustered
out of the Army at Camp Mills, July 18, 1919.

FRANKLIN WHITE LEE, 1903.

COMMISSIONED 1st Lieutenant, F.A., U.S.A., May 1, 1917, and
placed on active duty May 15. At the first Plattsburg Camp during
June, July and Aug., 1917. Served with the 301st Ammunition Train,
76th Division, during the whole period of the war. Did active
service in France from July, 1918, to Jan., 1919. Discharged from
the service May 4, 1919.

ENLISTED as Coxswain, Apr. 16, 1917, in the U.S.N.R.F. Served
until June on U.S.S. Harvard, and then on U.S.S. Taniwha.
Transferred in Sept. to U.S. Troop Transport Leviathan,
and served aboard her until March, 1918; then transferred to European
waters. Ordered to Naval Hq. in London; and in Aug. commissioned
and attached to the Staff of the Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces
in Europe, Admiral W.S. Sims, and served as a member of the Intelligence
Section and Historical Section until March, 1919.

EDWARD PARKE CUSTIS LEWIS, Ex-1918.

ATTENDED the Princeton R.O.T.C. in the winter of 1917-1918,
and the Princeton Summer Camp from July 1 to Aug. 26, 1918. Enlisted
and was accepted in the U.S. Marine Corps in Sept., 1918. Not
called into service because of the signing of the armistice.

GRISWOLD LORILLARD, 1904.

IN 1916 joined the Patrol Squadron organized to act as a Volunteer
Naval Reserve. Enlisted March 16, 1917, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
as a Coxswain in the Naval Reserve. Ordered to Newport, Hq. of
the Second Naval District, in May, 1917. Promoted to Chief Yeoman
in Apr., 1918, and to Ensign in Oct. Ordered to inactive duty
Jan. 12, 1919, having served twenty-two months.

PIERRE LORILLARD, JR., 1900.

COMMISSIONED Captain in the Q.M.R.C., Remount Service, Nov.
28, 1917, and reported for duty at Kansas City, Mo. Bought animals
for the Government until Apr., 1918, and then reported to Camp
Sherman, Chillicothe, O., as Assistant to the Commanding Officer,
Remount Depot 318. About June 6 reported as Casual Officer at
Camp Merritt, was put in command of 1500 casual colored replacements,
and took these to France, sailing June 23. Delivered the detachment
at Rampont about July 27. Reported to the Remount Service at Tours,
and was made Remount Officer, 3rd Army Corps, on the Vesle, Aug.
10. Remained in this position through the Oisne-Aisne campaign,
the Meuse-Argonne, and the march to the Rhine. With the 3rd Army
at Nieuwied, the American bridgehead, until ordered home the first
week in June, 1919. Commissioned Major, Q.M.C., Remount Service,
in Oct., 1918.

ERNEST LOVERING, JR., 1916.

TRAINED two years in the Harvard R.O.T.C. During the first
week of Oct., 1918, was sent to the Infantry Officers' School
at Camp Lee, Va., 28th Company, 6th Training Battalion C.O.T.S.
Demobilized early in Nov., 1918. Rank was that of a Private or
a Candidate.

✠ SAMUEL PIERCE MANDELL, 2ND,
1915.

SAMUEL PIERCE MAYDELL, 2ND, the son of George S. and Emily
(Proctor) Mandell, was born in Boston on the twentieth of March,
1897. He first attended Noble and Greenough's School, and entered
St. Mark's in the Second Form in 1910. He graduated in 1915, and
entered Harvard in the fall of the same year. In the summer of
1916 he trained with the Harvard Flying Corps at Ithaca, and in
the middle of his sophomore year he left college to enlist at
Newport News, March third, 1917, some time before the United States
entered the war. Here he qualified as a Pilot, and was sent, on
July the twenty-fifth, to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
for ground work. After the completion of the course there, he
went to Mineola, New York, when he received his commission as
First Lieutenant on the fifth of November, 1917. He sailed overseas
on the fifteenth of December.

After a tour of instruction and instructing at Issoudun, Tours,
Clermont-Ferrand, Châteaudun, and Orly, he was on the thirtieth
of August assigned to the 20th Aero Squadron, and the front. This
Squadron was a part of the First Day Bombardment Group, America's
first attempt at such work. He took part in the battle of St.
Mihiel, where the Squadron received a citation for having "shown
a devotion to duty and initiative which has not been exceeded
by any troops on the front." He participated in seventeen
raids, practically all that were made by the Squadron, and for
this he and almost all of the original group who still survived
were again cited, this time individually. His last flight was
also the last American air raid of the war. It began on the morning
of November fifth with Mouzon as the objective, and Mandell flew
number three in the formation. His ship was put out of commission
at the height of 12,000 feet in the air; but as it sank in great
spirals he succeeded in righting it repeatedly until within 100
feet from the ground, when it crashed down into a small field
near Martincourt. On the other side of a canal near by were German
troops; but Mandell's observer, Lieutenant Fulton, who could easily
have escaped, remained to extricate his companion from the wreckage.
A German officer on the other bank ordered two soldiers across,
and these, with first aid kits, cared for the injured man. In
about twenty minutes the command came to march Fulton away, and
Mandell was left propped up and still unconscious by the plane.
The German officer, who spoke perfect English, promised to send
medical aid if possible.

The rest of the story is gleaned from the inhabitants of the
town. Some time later a German Captain of Infantry came along
the bank. Looking over at the unconscious man he took a rifle
from one of the guards and deliberately fired a number of shots
into the helpless American, one bullet penetrating the brain.
The Germans were now in retreat, and it was some time before a
detachment of the Fifth Marines, in passing through the town,
were notified. Mandell was buried where he fell, but arrangements
were made for a reinterment, and he was later laid at rest in
the little country churchyard on the hill nearly opposite.

SAMUEL PIERCE MANDELL, 2ND.

Future St. Markers will be able to think of Mandell and his
work with less distraction than we, who feel his death the more
because of the manner of it. From their point of view, indeed,
there may be something like historical suggestiveness in it, because
of the glaring contrast it offers between young, generous, sportsmanlike
American manhood, which saved the world, and the measureless cowardice
which ruined Germany. It is our comfort and glory to remember
that what Mandell and all our boys went out to fight was barbarism;
that they knew it, knew its implications, and that their hearts
were animated for what they did by this knowledge alone. The German
creed has been driven from the earth; and it was driven by the
power of that spirit which never shone more brightly than in Mandell.

In him the spirit was independent and persistent to the last
degree. In many matters in which most boys grow up accepting traditions
and customs as they find them, his attitude was one of cautious
inquiry: he built his character as it were piece by piece, utterly
unbiassed by the consent or the prejudice of his companions. This
persistent caution never degenerated into obstinacy, and was always
accompanied by an eagerness to hear all the evidence. The result
was a healthy mental balance, a tolerant, half-humorous reserve,
and a commanding will. These took their color from the open-air
sportsmanship that determined his view of all activities, and
both in the case of school athletics and classroom work ensured
faithful effort and solid success.

But there was something beyond these things and beyond analysis.
It came direct from the heart, and dispelled his apparent shyness
like mist; it leaped to the slightest appeal, whatever that appeal
might be.

The justice of his character, which made him strong and unfailing
in the battles of life, became all at once a radiance of sympathy
and service, kindled by responsiveness and love. If this makes
the injustice of his death harder to bear, it also teaches why
he so bravely went forth to face it.

WILLIAM DEFOREST MANICE, 1907.

COMMISSIONED 2nd Lieutenant in the 12th N.Y. Infantry, N.G.,
July 27, 1917. Called into the Federal service Aug. 4. Left New
York with the regiment for Camp Wadsworth Sept. 14. Transferred,
upon the reorganization of the 27th Division, to the 108th U.S.
Infantry, Oct. 1. Ordered to Washington for duty under the Chief
of Staff in the Construction Division of the Army, Jan. 6, 1918.
Promoted to Captain in the Q.M.C. March 15. Remained on duty with
the Construction Division of the Army at Washington until discharged
from the military service March 1, 1919.

ROBERT McCURDY MARSH, 1895.

ENTERED the Plattsburg Training Camp May 14, 1917. Commissioned
Captain, F.A., U.S.R., Nov. 27. Stationed at Camp Meade, Md.,
with the 351st F.A., most of the time as Battery Commander of
Battery E, from Dec. 15 to March 31, 1918. Stationed at the Lakehurst
Experimental Grounds, Lakehurst, N.J., in charge of artillery
operations in gas experimentation from Apr. 1 to Sept. 26. At
the School of Fire, Fort Sill, Okla., from Sept. 29 to Dec. 7.
With the F.A., C.O.T.S., Camp Zachary Taylor, as Instructor. Recommended
by the Chief of F.A. and by the Director of Chemical Warfare for
a commission as Major. Discharged Dec. 31, 1918. Commissioned
as Major, F.A., O.R.C., Apr. 8, 1919.

REUNE MARTIN, 1894.

MUSTERED into the Federal service July 15, 1917, as 1st Lieutenant
in the 69th Infantry, N.G., N.Y., assigned to Company A. Left
Camp Mills, L.I., for France Oct. 25. From March 1 to May 31,
1918, saw service in the Luneville and Baccarat sectors, and July
15-16 on the Champagne front. July 17 ordered home for assignment
to a new division, with promotion to Captain. Aug. 15, assigned
as Instructor, C.O.T.S., Camp Gordon, Ga. Discharged Dec. 16,
1918.

TOWNSEND MARTIN, 1914.

ENTERED the A.F.S. and went abroad in Apr., 1917. As a member
of Section 29, did active work in the Verdun sector during the
summer of 1917. Received the Croix de Guerre (à l'ordre
de la division) in Aug. Resigned from the ambulance in Nov. Entered
the French Army, and was sent to the Officers' School at Fontainebleau,
Dec. 18. Graduated Apr. 15, 1918, as Aspirant, and joined the
16th Battery, 101st Regiment of Artillery. Took part in the Marne
fighting in July, the Ourcq offensive July 18 and the Aisne offensive,
west of Soissons, in Aug. Cited a second time (Croix de Guerre,
ordre de la division) Aug. 28. In Sept. and Oct. held positions
in Alsace. After the armistice, moved into Germany, and was stationed
in the bridge-head north of Wiesbaden. Promoted to the grade of
2nd Lieutenant. Honorably discharged Mar. 18, 1919. The citations
follow.

GEORGE ALEXANDER MCKINLOCK, JR., was born in Chicago on May
the sixteenth, 1893, the son of George Alexander and Marion W.
(Rappleye) McKinlock. He entered the Fay School in 1903, and St.
Mark's two years later. He went to Harvard in 1912. He joined
the Reserve Officers' Training Camp at Fort Sheridan in June,
1917; graduated in August of the same year; and received a commission
as Second Lieutenant of Cavalry. Selected for service in France,
he sailed on the Kroonland September twelfth, and arrived
in October. He attended training schools at Gondrecourt and other
places; was appointed on the staff of Major Davis, Second Brigade,
Third Machine Gun Battalion, First Division, Liaison Officer,
in February, 1918. He was called by General Buck to become a member
of his staff as Intelligence Officer about April, 1918. He received
no promotions, but had been recommended for a captaincy, and was
killed before the recommendation could be acted upon, July 21,
1918. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm; the Distinguished
Service Cross; and a recommendation for the latter a second time.
His ribbon has two silver stars and two bronze stars. The recommendation
for the Distinguished Service Cross was as follows:

"For exceptional gallantry under heavy bombardment and
severe machine gun fire in proceeding along the front lines near
Berzy-le-Sec to verify the position reports of the advanced locations
of the front lines, and was killed while so doing."

GEORGE ALEXANDER McKINLOCK, JR.

McKinlock was at first reported missing, and it was some time
before a fruitless search of the hospitals and the testimony of
witnesses identified him with an American officer who had been
seen to fall. Berzy-le-Sec had just been taken, and one hour later
he was sent forward to verify the position of the front lines.
According to the testimony of a chaplain, McKinlock had met French
officers on a similar mission, and when walking with them in the
town of Berzy was killed by a sniper. The other officers took
cover, and later encountered the chaplain, to whom they related
the occurrence, describing McKinlock with accuracy. The chaplain's
search for his body that evening was unsuccessful; but some enlisted
men informed him that a body had lain in the spot all day, and
they believed an ambulance had carried it away. Several circumstances
combined to throw uncertainty upon this account; but the final
evidence, including reports from two French officers believed
to be those whom he had joined, goes to establish its truth. He
had been buried in a small garden in the town and his mother herself
much later found the spot, marked by a cross, and an inscription
to the "American soldier who had died gloriously for liberty."
The chaplain, who is said to have been present at the burial,
was himself killed shortly afterwards. Major-General Buck writes
as follows at the end of one of his letters: "I need not
tell you of the deep sorrow which fell upon me and the surviving
members of my staff in the loss of Alexander McKinlock, who was
loved by us all. I had selected him as a member of my staff on
account of his splendid qualities and ability." "Such
men are an asset to the Army and to the Nation." Splendid
in qualities and ability and an asset to the Nation, is the formal
estimate of McKinlock by his superior officer; and thus his memory
will stand. But in the investigations due to the first uncertainty
about his death, details of his conduct are brought to light which,
while they sadden, are a source of abiding comfort and gratitude
to his old School, who knew that he was splendid. In the advanced
telephone-station of the Twenty-sixth Infantry, --- a little gully
by the side of an unused road, which having been discovered by
the enemy, was kept under heavy shell and shrapnel fire all day,
-- he quietly crouches, hour after hour, defenceless; but we can
almost see the characteristic raising of the eyebrows and the
curling of the lip into a half smile, as he accumulates his information.
From a quieter zone he confesses that "with the laying aside
of gas mask and tin helmet the zest has gone out of things,"
and quotes a colored soldier's remark that "if it wan't for
dis shellin' and boomin' dis wah would not be a bad place."
He briefly remarks that he "spoke in the Y hut"; and
then offers without comment his bit of evidence in regard to German
brutality: "I saw and talked with a poor old woman who, together
with her old husband, had had her eyes put out by the Huns in
sheer, wanton brutality. The officers who had moved there shortly
after the Hun retreat told me, and showed me pictures they had
taken of the victims, and the worst you have read and heard do
not tell the half." He "enjoys speaking and singing
to our convalescents, but it breaks him all up to go through the
wards and try to say encouraging things."

The love of him as he was at school comes back and mingles
with the pain when we read these things, for we recognize and
seem to see him in them all; strong, restless, affectionate, conscientious,
humorous and serious at once; and we are thankful for his life,
and for the smile we shall never see again, but which will in
the days to come warm and strengthen in our hearts our faith in
all that is untainted and honorable and true. For to him the School
owes a debt which can be paid only as we recognize that nothing
can ever be manly but what is also pure and straightforward and
of good report. His brave record will perpetually tell those who
come after us how he was "splendid in qualities and ability,
and an asset to the Nation" when her need was sore; but the
living memory alone can tell of the love we bore him.

GEORGE GIBSON McMURTRY, JR., 1895.

ENTERED the 1st Plattsburg O.T.C. May 12, 1917. Commissioned
1st Lieutenant of Infantry Aug. 15, and reported to Camp Upton,
N.Y., Sept. 5. Placed in command of Company E, 308th Infantry,
Sept. 16. Commissioned Captain of Infantry, Camp Upton, Dec. 31.
Sailed with regiment to France Apr. 6, 1918, and was in foreign
service from Apr. 19, 1918, to Apr. 21, 1919. Commissioned Major
of Infantry at Brulon, France, Feb. 23, 1919. Mustered out of
service at Camp Upton May 12, 1919. Took part in the following
battles and engagements: Baccarat sector, June 21 to Aug. 4, 1918;
Vesle sector, Aug. 11 to 18; Oise-Aisne offensive, Aug. 18 to
Sept. 16; Meuse-Argonne offensive, Sept. 26 to Oct. 9; Meuse-Argonne
offensive, Oct. 28 to Nov. 11, 1918. Received the following medals:
U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor, Dec. 6, 1918; French Croix
de Guerre with Palm, Apr. 13, 1919, Chevalier of the French Legion
of Honor, May 5, 1919. Second-in-command to Major Charles W. Whittlesey
of the "Lost Battalion," which was cut off and surrounded
by the German forces in the Argonne forest for five days in Oct.,
1918. This command was without food of any kind for over four
days and nights, but held the position until relieved. The citation
for the Congressional Medal follows.

"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and
beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy at Charlevaux,
in the Forest d'Argonne, France, 2-8 October, 1918.

"Captain McMurtry commanded a battalion which was cut
off and surrounded by the enemy, and although wounded in the
knee by shrapnel on 4 October and suffering great pain, he continued
throughout the entire period to encourage his officers and men
with a resistless optimism that contributed largely toward preventing
panic and disorder among the troops, who were without food, cut
off from communication with our lines. On 4 October during a
heavy barrage, he personally directed and supervised the moving
of the wounded to shelter before himself seeking shelter. On
6 October, he was again wounded in the shoulder by a German grenade,
but continued personally to organize and direct the defence against
the German attack on the position until the attack was defeated.
He continued to direct and command his troops, refusing relief,
and personally led his men out of the position after assistance
arrived, before permitting himself to be taken to the hospital
on 8 October. During this period the successful defence of the
position was due largely to his efforts."

McMurtry was one of the eight Harvard University men who rendered
distinguished service in the Great War selected by the Governing
Boards for the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts. These Degrees
were presented at Harvard University, June 19, 1919.

LANSING McVICKAR, 1914.

FROM June, 1916, to Nov., served with Battery A, 1st Mass.
F.A. In May, 1917, at Plattsburg; commissioned 2nd Lieutenant
F.A., O.R.C., and sailed Sept. 8. Joined the 7th F.A., 1st Division,
Sept. 29, and served with them until discharged in June, 1919.
Promoted to 1st Lieutenant as of Aug. 17, 1918. Wounded at Soissons,
July 18, 1918. Twice cited (Dec. 14, 1918, and Aug., 1919), and
was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (order of Dec. 18,
1918). The citations follow.

"For extraordinary heroism in action near Very on October
4, 1918. He volunteered and took forward a gun to the aid of
the infantry under most hazardous circumstances. Despite the
loss of two horses and the wounding of several of his men, he
continued until he encountered an enemy barrage, from which it
was necessary to take cover. He exposed himself to the barrage
on five different occasions to bring in wounded men."

"Second Lieutenant Lansing McVickar, 7th F.A., at Eglise
Fontaine on October 4, 1918, and at Apremont on October 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 1918, as Executive Officer, repeatedly during heavy
bombardment, by his coolness and disregard of personal safety,
kept a high morale among his men, maintaining fine discipline
and repeatedly enabling his Battery to perform difficult missions
under great and unusual difficulty."

HENRY WISE MILLER, 1895.

ARRIVED in France Dec. 16, 1917. Enlisted in the Norton-Harjes
Ambulance in June. Captain in the A.R.C. Left Paris in May, 1919.

HAROLD PALMER MILLS, 1906.

WITH the 12th Company at the 2nd Plattsburg Training Camp.
In Nov., 1917, was made 1st Lieutenant in the A.S. Attended the
S.M.A. at Champaign, Ill., and at Columbus, O. In March, 1918,
Supply officer of the 654th Aero Squadron, Garden City, L.I.,
and Commanding Officer of the same squadron in Apr. Commanding
Officer of the Henry J. Damm Field, Babylon, L.I., in June, 1918.
In addition to military duties, built the field and established
the post here, and then was ordered to Wantagh, L.I., for the
same sort of work. Commanding Officer, Lufberry Field, Wantagh,
L.I., in Aug., 1918. In Oct., 1918, relieved, to go overseas,
and ordered to Garden City to await transportation. Made Captain
in the A.S. Oct. 19, 1918. While awaiting shipment, was Commanding
Officer and Military Instructor, Recruit Detachment, Hazelhurst
Field, Mineola, L.I., in Nov. Commanding Officer of the 358th
Aero Squadron at Mineola in Dec., 1918. Discharged Jan. 9, 1919.

ENLISTED March 1, 1917, as Sergeant, Aviation Section, S.C.
Trained at Miami, Fla., in the Aviation School until June 25,
and was then commissioned 1st Lieutenant, Aviation Section, S.C.
Ordered to France Aug. 15, and sailed Sept. 11 for Paris in charge
of a Cadet detachment. Stationed at Issoudun, France, from Oct.
to Apr., 1918, and Apr. 16 was ordered to join the 95th Aero Squadron,
1st Pursuit Group, operating in the Toul sector. Remained with
this squadron until after the armistice. Engaged in the following
battles: Toul sector, May and June; Château-Thierry and
Aisne River (Fismes), July and Aug.; St. Mihiel and Argonne, Sept.
and Oct. Promoted to Captain Oct. 15, and assumed command of the
95th Squadron. The Squadron was demobilized Dec. 10. Arrived in
the U.S. Feb. 14, and was discharged Feb. 16, 1919. Received the
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, awarded in Nov. by the French
6th Army for work on the Toul sector in May, 1918; and in Dec.
the American Distinguished Service Cross for work on the Toul
sector May 27, 1918. Credited with the destruction of four enemy
planes in combat according to official credits in the A.E.F. at
the close of the war. The citation for the Distinguished Service
Cross follows.

"Mitchell, Capt. John, Manchester 95th Aero Squadron,
for extraordinary heroism in action near Beaumont, France, May
27, 1918. Seeing three enemy planes flying east over Apremont
at 2500 meters, Capt. Mitchell unhesitatingly attacked the three
machines, which were in close formation, despite the fact that
a fourth, hovering above, threatened to close in and join the
enemy formation. He succeeded in shooting down the enemy machine,
which proved to be a biplane returning from an important mission."

The French citation was for bringing down an enemy plane behind
the German lines on the Toul sector, May 26, 1918.

JOHN MURRAY MITCHELL, 1917.

ENTERED the R.O.T.C., Plattsburg Barracks, N.Y., June 5, 1918.
Five weeks later entered the S.A.T.C. at the same place, and was
made Acting 2nd Lieutenant of a training company. Commissioned
in Sept., and assigned to the Replacement Unit, Camp Grant, Rockford,
Ill. Soon transferred to the 161st Depot Brigade, Camp Grant,
and thence in Oct. to the Camp Intelligence section. There when
discharged in Dec., 1918.

GEORGE GARDNER MONKS, 1917.

ENTERED the service Oct. 5, 1918, and was assigned to the Central
M.G.O.T.S., at Camp Hancock, Ga., ranking as a Private. Discharged
at Camp Hancock Nov. 25, before the completion of the course.

BARRINGTON MOORE, 1902.

APPLIED for a captaincy of Engineers, R.C., about Dec., 1916,
and was examined in Feb., 1917. Entered the 1st O.T.C. at Plattsburg
May 8. May 20 was asked by Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel) Henry
S. Graves, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, to accompany him
to France to prepare for the arrival of the 10th Engineers (Forestry)
which was being sent at the special request of the British government
to cut from French forests lumber and other wood materials urgently
needed by the British Army at the front. Commissioned Captain
of Engineers, R.C., May 29; sailed June 9; arrived in Bordeaux
June 18. Reached Paris June 20, and with Major Graves was attached
to the staff of Chief of Engineers, Colonel (later Brigadier-General)
Taylor, being made responsible for supplying lumber and wood needed
by the A.E.F. Found wood to be a prime military necessity, and
the situation of the A.E.F. critical for lack of it, owing to
the submarines' preventing importation, and to shortage in the
French and British Armies. From June to Aug., assisted Major Graves
in planning the organization of 18,000 troops to supply the needs
of the A.E.F. in wood. Acquired standing timber in advance of
the arrival of these troops, and whatever ready cut material could
be borrowed or purchased from the French and British Armies. From
Sept. to Feb., 1918, continued the acquisition of standing timber,
and, as member of the Inter-Allied War Wood Committee, leased
French sawmills. In March wood purchases of the A.E.F. in Europe
were centralized under the General Purchasing Agent, Brigadier-General,
then Colonel, Charles G. Dawes, by General Order 8, S.O.S., of
Mar. 5. Was given charge of this centralization as Chief of the
Wood Section under the General Purchasing Agent. From March to
Oct., acquired lumber and other wood materials for the A.E.F.
from France, Switzerland, Portugal, Great Britain and Scandinavian
countries, to supplement that produced from French forests by
the Forestry Troops, the 10th and 11th Engineers. Sept. 19, promoted
to Major. Oct. 20, sailed for Washington to represent the A.E.F.
in negotiations with Switzerland for lumber; under orders to return
to France upon the completion of the mission. The armistice rendered
the lumber unnecessary. Honorable discharge received Dec. 13.
Apr. 4, 1919, awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor by the
French Government.

BENJAMIN MOORE, 1904.

MADE Captain of Infantry, O.R.C., Nov. 8, 1916. Ordered to
active duty May 13, 1917, and sent to the R.O.T.C. at Fort Oglethorpe,
Ga. Reassigned to the 2nd Training Camp, and remained there until
Nov. 4, when ordered to Camp Gordon and placed in command of the
M.G. Company, 328th Infantry, 82nd Division. Placed in command
of the 321st M.G. Battalion in June, 1918, and promoted to Major
in July. Made Acting Division M.G. Officer in Sept., 1918, and
Nov. 7 was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and made Division M.G.
Officer. Served with the 82nd Division in the Lagny and Marbache
sectors, and in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne operations. Transferred
to Paris in Dec., attached to the American Commission to Negotiate
Peace, and assigned as Aide to Commissioner E. M. House. Discharged
July 29, 1919.

HENRY CAREY MORGAN, 1910.

SERVED with the Aviation; passed examinations as a Cadet, and
was sent to a flying field at Dallas, Tex. Taken ill, and remained
in the hospital six months. Mustered out with honorable discharge
Nov. 22, 1918.

HEWITT MORGAN, 1913.

ATTENDED the Plattsburg Training Camp, and received a commission
as 2nd Lieutenant dated Aug. 15, 1917. Assigned to Company M,
302nd Infantry, at Camp Devens, Mass., and promoted to 1st Lieutenant
Jan. 1, 1918. Sailed with the organization from New York July
4, 1918, and stopped at Liverpool, Winchester, Southampton, Havre
and Bordeaux. Assigned to the S.O.S. at Le Courneau for construction
work, and sent to the Gas School at Chaumont for a week. Rejoined
the 76th Division Oct. 10 at St. Amand for training replacements.
When the 76th Division was broken up about Nov. 1, was assigned
to the 163rd Infantry, 41st Division. Transferred to Company E,
311th Infantry, 78th Division, about Jan. 10, 1919. Sailed with
the organization from Bordeaux May 10. Landed at Newport News,
and was discharged at Boston June 3, 1919.

MONSON MORRIS.

ENTERED the service Aug. 5, 1917, with the 15th Infantry, N.G.,
N.Y., as Major, 2nd Battalion. The designation of the Regiment
was changed after arrival in the sector at the front to 369th
Infantry. Served with the Regiment as part of the 4th French Army
from March 6 to June 9. Base Provost Marshal, Base 1, until July
16; Assistant to Provost Marshal General in charge of leave areas,
prisoners of war and military police until Sept. 30. In charge
of German Officers' Prison Camp at Richelieu from Sept. 30 until
ordered home Dec. 26, 1918. Arrived in the U.S. Feb. 1, 1919.
At Camp Dix as Executive of Officers' Discharge Centre until muster-out,
Sept. 20, 1919.

RICHARD LEWIS MORRIS, 1893.

ENTERED the F.A., C.O.T.S., at Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky., Nov.
7, 1918, and was honorably discharged after the signing of the
armistice, Dec. 7, 1918.

✠ RICHARD MORTIMER, JR., 1907.

RICHARD MORTIMER, JR., the son of Richard and Eleanor Jay Mortmer,
was born in Carlsbad, Germany, on the twenty-sixth of July, 1888.
He attended the Fay School, and entered St. Mark's with the First
Form in the class of 1907. He excelled in several forms of athletics,
being a football player, a boxer, and a track man. He graduated
in three years from Harvard College, with the class of 1910, and
afterwards from the Law School, where he did creditable work and
graduated with distinction. His greatest recreation was riding,
and he became well known for his skill and fearlessness in steeplechase
and on the hunting field. Before the United States entered the
war he planned to take part in whatever way he could be of most
use, but because of poor eyesight he was several times refused
admission to active service.

He enlisted in 1917 in the Aviation Section, Signal, Corps,
and was sent to the School of Military Aeronautics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. In August, 1917, he sailed for England,
and there attended aviation schools. He was commissioned First
Lieutenant, Aviation Section, Signal Corps, on the twenty-fifth
of March, 1918, and detailed to Ferrying; that is, taking new
planes from England across the Channel. In May, 1918, he was assigned
to a squadron in France, and on May the twenty-second he was killed
while practising manoeuvres. He was buried in an Allied-American
cemetery near Hesdin Wood, in the north of France.

RICHARD MORTIMER, JR.

The charm of Mortimer's personality secured him friends not
only among his contemporaries, but among older people as freely,
because of the modesty and candor which never sought praise or
popularity. Never unfair in his judgment of others, and modest
in his own opinions, he was as a boy easily aroused to indignation
at any form of injustice and prompt to rebel against it; but he
never confused it with hard or unpleasant duty. To a quick perception,
ready intellect and quiet, keen wit, he brought the steady application
and industry which assured him success in his undertakings. To
him honor and truth were the very foundation stones of character,
and fearlessness but the preliminary test of a gentleman. Generous
and sportsmanlike in the truest sense, knightly in courage and
courtesy, he was irresistibly drawn to the brilliant and perilous
service in war that best answered to the delights of his beloved
horsemanship, perhaps because of its very danger. But he brought
wholesomeness and grace to every company and to every duty, and
he did this less by the effect of his powers than by the indescribable
influence of what he was.

And beneath everything, unknown perhaps to those who saw him
but casually, was a sweetness of disposition seldom found in either
man or woman; a responsive, eager sympathy and optimism which
made his mere presence a privilege and a benediction. His school
and his college and his country may honor him for his brave heart
and his loyal devotion; but in the hearts of his friends alone
lies the most precious gift and memory of all, the spirit of a
love which can never fail.

CHARLES FREDERICK MOSLE, 1893.

MAY 22, 1918, enlisted as a Private in the Regulars, Infantry,
at Fort Slocum, N.Y. June 8, transferred to Camp Merritt, N.J.
July 5, sailed from Hoboken with the Panama Recruit Company to
Colon, Canal Zone, and in Aug. was assigned to Company K, 33rd
Infantry, as a Private. Dec. 1, promoted to Corporal, and served
at Camp Gaillard, C.Z. (Culebra), and Balboa, C.Z. Feb. 18, 1919,
discharged as Corporal, and sent home from Colon.

HENRY MUNROE, 1915.

FROM May to Aug., 1917, Assistant to the Director of Chapters,
A.R.C., National Hq., Washington, D.C. From Aug., 1917, to Jan.,
1918, Inspector, A.R.C. Commission to Great Britain, with the
rank of 1st Lieutenant; Hq., London, England. From June to Sept.,
1918, Assistant to Director, Speakers' Bureau, Atlantic Division,
A.R.C., New York, N.Y.

JOHN MUNROE, 1909.

JOINED the A.A.F.S. May 6, 1916. Assigned to Section 3, and
served at Verdun, Pont-à-Mousson and Monastir. Entered
the French Artillery School, at Fontainebleau, June 8, 1917, as
a Private in the Foreign Legion, detached to the 32nd Artillery.
Appointed Aspirant (cadet), Sept. 3, and detached as Instructor
to the American Artillery School, Saumur. Dec. 14, assigned to
the 89th Regiment of Artillery, and served with them in Alsace
in Jan., 1918; on the Somme in Apr. and May; Marne-Château-Thierry
in June and July; on the Somme in Aug.; the Aisne in Aug.; and
Champagne-Argonne in Sept., Oct., and Nov. Commissioned Sous-Lieutenant
May 15, 1918. Cited in order of the 57th Division, Army of the
Orient, in Jan., 1917, and received the Croix de Guerre with Silver
Star. Discharged Feb. 7, 1919, in Paris. Received the Médaille
du Service Bénévole in June, 1919. The Croix de
Guerre citation follows.